Word: fdr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably never meet them anywhere but on the road. I remember a veteran stringing his war stories of twenty-five years between Washington and New York, a Texas minister who went out of his way to take me to Hyde Park because he had such fond memories of FDR, a light-haired blind girl in New Jersey talking about her act in a talent show while her dog stared out at the night...
...convention--complete with noisemakers and red, white, and blue bunting, and quotes from FDR, Eisenhower, and LBJ on big placards on the walls--was the culmination of three-months' work by neighborhood caucuses...
...moralists, of course, was probably not possible with-race riots, or a TV in every home. Still, the iconoclasts and moralists easily outnumber the Humphrey wing of the party. This faction seems to be composed, in large part, of older people who have grown comfortable and powerful with the FDR-HST-JFK-LBJ brand of liberalism: give a little to everybody at home and keep the Communists at bay abroad...
This gradual shift of Wisconsin voters to the Democratic ranks may be seen in the composition of the two state bodies, the Senate and the Assembly. The 100-man lower house had one to six Democrats during the '20's. FDR swept in an all-time high of 50 in 1932, and there were 11 to 26 in the '40's and 24 to 55 in the '50's. Today Democrats hold 47 Assembly seats...
Coles, a research psychiatrist for the University Health Services, condemned the political exploitation of the "nostalgia of lower middle-class whites for the days of FDR and the Depression...